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Papers from 2009

Least Cost Avoidance: The Tragedy of the Common Safety, Nuno Garoupa and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci (April 1, 2009)

U.S. Patent Law (with M. Addy) (forthcoming 2009), Timothy R. Holbrook (April 1, 2009)

A Theory of Judicial Power and Judicial Review, David S. Law (April 1, 2009)

Plaintiphobia in State Courts? An Empirical Study of State Court Trials on Appeal, Theodore Eisenberg and Michael Heise (January 1, 2009)

Soft Law, Jacob E. Gersen and Eric A. Posner (January 1, 2009)

The Aggregate-Plus Theory of Partnership Taxation, Brad Borden (January 1, 2009)

The Child Protection Pretense, James G. Dwyer (January 1, 2009)

International Trade Law: Cases and Materials, Aspen Publishers, Andrew T. Guzman and Joost Pauwelyn (January 1, 2009)

Justifications for Tax Exemption, Evelyn Brody (January 1, 2009)

Papers from 2008

Presentation: A Continuity of Congress Proposal, Seth Barrett Tillman (December 1, 2008)

Law and the Poverty of Nations, Robert D. Cooter and Hans Bernd Schaefer (November 1, 2008)

A Unified Theory of 28 U.S.C. § 1331 Jurisdiction, Lumen N. Mulligan (November 1, 2008)

A Darwinist View of the Living Constitution, Scott Dodson (October 1, 2008)

The (Not So) Puzzling Behavior of Angel Investors, Darian M. Ibrahim (October 1, 2008)

South Carolina Criminal Offenses: Elements and Defenses (in progress), Miller W. Shealy and Margaret Lawton (October 1, 2008)

Politics In Military Commissions, Gregory S. McNeal (October 1, 2008)

The Legal Impact of Homeland Security On Businesses, Gregory S. McNeal (October 1, 2008)

Priceless? The Competitive Costs of Credit Cards, Adam J. Levitin (September 1, 2008)

Evidence - A Contemporary Approach, Sydney Aaron Beckman, Susan Crump, and Fred Galves (August 1, 2008)

Evidence: A Video Library, Sydney Aaron Beckman and Miller Shealy (August 1, 2008)

A Study of Interest, John Y. Gotanda (August 1, 2008)

Against Freedom of Commercial Expression, Tamara R. Piety (August 1, 2008)

International Law and Islamic Law, Mashood A. Baderin (July 1, 2008)

Smoke and Mirrors: An Escomateur as an Expert Witness, Sydney Aaron Beckman (July 1, 2008)

South Carolina Family Code Annotated, Sydney Aaron Beckman and Judge Kaye Hearn (July 1, 2008)

The Like-Kind Exchange Equity Conundrum, Brad Borden (July 1, 2008)

Election Law Violations, A. David Pardo (July 1, 2008)

"William Littell, Kurt X. Metzmeier (June 1, 2008)

Tax Equity, Anthony C. Infanti (June 1, 2008)

DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND THE VANISHING TRIAL: COMPARING FEDERAL GOVERNMENT LITIGATION AND ADR OUTCOMES, Lisa Blomgren Bingham, Tina Nabatchi, Jeffrey Senger, and Michael Scott Jackman (May 6, 2008)

The Love Song of The Delaware Court of Chancery, David K. Kessler (May 6, 2008)

Vivimos un periodo de cambios de mentalidad y costumbres, José Luis Vargas Aguilar (May 5, 2008)

Redefining Adultery in the Virtual Age, Sydney Aaron Beckman (May 1, 2008)

Automating Contract Law, George Geis (May 1, 2008)

Criminology and Its Discontents, Franklin E. Zimring (May 1, 2008)

Macroeconomic Crises since 1870, José Francisco Ursúa Remírez and Robert Barro (May 1, 2008)

Payment Sequence in Winding Up: A Critique of Corporate Insolvency, Dyutimoy Mukherjee and Jeevan Ballav Panda (May 1, 2008)

Energy Polarization and Popular Representation: Evidence from the Russian Duma, Theocharis N. Grigoriadis and Benno Torgler (April 28, 2008)

Title VII and Gender Nonconformity in Men, Colleen M. Keating (April 27, 2008)

Einstein's Theory of Taxation, William A. Drennan (April 25, 2008)

Integrated Sovereignty, Philip M. Nichols (April 23, 2008)

Patent Trolls and Patent-Busters, Matthew Rimmer (April 21, 2008)

THE EVOLUTION OF NATURAL LAW, Timothy Keefe (April 18, 2008)

Entrenched Inequity: Health Care in the United States of America, Jean Connolly Carmalt, Sarah Zaidi, and Alicia Ely Yamin (April 18, 2008)

JUST NOT WHO WE ARE: A CRITIQUE OF COMMON LAW CONSTITUTIONALISM, Andrew C. Spiropoulos (April 18, 2008)

Effect of the Shape of the Baffles on the Hydrodynamics of a Fluidized Bed, Srinivasa Rao Venkata Naga Kaza (April 16, 2008)

Happy Fifth Birthday to JHSEM, Claire B. Rubin (April 16, 2008)

The National Masturbators Task Force, William B. Turner (April 16, 2008)

Is the Right to Vote Really Fundamental?, Joshua A. Douglas (April 16, 2008)

THE EVOLUTION OF NATURAL LAW, Timothy Keefe (April 16, 2008)

Time to Revive Puerto Rican Voting Rights, Katherine Culliton (April 14, 2008)

Applying Rule 404, Renee A. Pistone (April 13, 2008)

Foreign Tax Credit Arbitrage, eric silver (April 9, 2008)

Get Rid of the Patent Absurdities, Matthew Rimmer (April 9, 2008)

The End of the Red Queen's Race: Medical Marijuana in the New Century, Ruth C. Stern and J. Herbie DiFonzo (April 8, 2008)

Book Review, Eric Heinze (April 8, 2008)

Book Review, Eric Heinze (April 8, 2008)

The SEC's 2006 Soft Dollar Guidance: Law and Economics, D. Bruce Johnsen (April 7, 2008)

Rhetoric Counts: What We Should Teach When We Teach Posner, Kathleen M. O'Neill (April 4, 2008)

Is That a Bundle in Your Pocket, Or . . .?, Allison Hayward (April 3, 2008)

Clearly, Using Intensifiers Is Very Bad--Or Is It?, Lance N. Long and William F. Chistensen (April 2, 2008)

American Legal Ethics in an Age of Anxiety, Michael Ariens (April 1, 2008)

Free Speech and Human Dignity, Steven J. Heyman (April 1, 2008)

Patent Litigation and Strategy (with K. Moore & P. Michel), Timothy R. Holbrook (April 1, 2008)

Mixing Property, Amnon Lehavi (April 1, 2008)

Docketology, District Courts, and Doctrine, David A. Hoffman, Alan J. Izenman, and Jeffrey R. Lidicker (April 1, 2008)

The Case for the Plain Packaging of Tobacco Products, Becky Freeman, Simon Chapman, and Matthew Rimmer (April 1, 2008)

Economics as Context for Contract Law, George Geis (April 1, 2008)

CAFA's Impact on Litigation as a Public Good, Elizabeth C. Burch (April 1, 2008)

Extraterritoriality in U.S. Patent Law (forthcoming), Timothy R. Holbrook (April 1, 2008)

Patents for Poets (forthcoming), Timothy R. Holbrook (April 1, 2008)

The Jurisprudence of Notice and Comment, Jamison E. Colburn (April 1, 2008)

A Course in Ethics and Economics, Mario J. Rizzo (April 1, 2008)

Private Parties and WTO Dispute Settlement System, alberto alemanno (April 1, 2008)

Pay-As-You-Drive Car Insurance, Jason Bordoff (April 1, 2008)

Cyber Embargo: Countering the Internet Jihad, Gregory S. McNeal (April 1, 2008)

The Ghost in Our Genes: Legal and Ethical Implications of Epigenetics, Gary E. Marchant, Mark A. Rothstein, and Yu Cai (March 31, 2008)

Measuring Identity Theft at Top Banks (Version 1.5), Chris Hoofnagle (March 31, 2008)

Einstein's Theory of Taxation, William A. Drennan (March 30, 2008)

The Pirates Will Party On!, William A. Drennan (March 30, 2008)

Vertical Price Restraints After Leegin, Edward D. Cavanagh (March 29, 2008)

Economic Substance and the Standard of Review, Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz (March 28, 2008)

Tracing the Contours of the Ninth Amendment, Alan Tauber (March 28, 2008)

Deconstructing the Case for Hedge Funds, Daniel E. Etlinger (March 28, 2008)

Why Every Law Student Should Be A Gunner, Robert M. Lloyd (March 28, 2008)

Can Tax Policy Stop Human Trafficking?, Diane L. Fahey (March 27, 2008)

Making Civil Society Meaningful in Independent Kosovo, Henry H. Perritt (March 27, 2008)

Religion in the Schools, Mark Strasser (March 26, 2008)

Ending Liberalism's Holy War against the Holy?, Anne SY Cheung and Puja Kapai (March 25, 2008)

Leave Those Orcs Alone: Property Rights in Virtual Worlds, Kevin E. Deenihan (March 25, 2008)

The Role of Economic Emergency Situation Determinations in Expediting Fire Salvage, Melanie Stidham, Gwen Busby, and K. Norman Johnson (March 24, 2008)

Why Every Law Student Should Be A Gunner, Robert M. Lloyd (March 23, 2008)

Built in Obsolescence: The Coming End to the Abortion Debate, Vernellia R. Randall and Tshaka C. Randall (March 22, 2008)

Legal Archaeology, Julie Novkov (March 21, 2008)

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL OBSTACLES TO INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR ACTIVISM IN EUROPE AND IN THE US (POWERPOINT), Paolo Santella, Enrico Baffi, Carlo Drago, and Dino Lattuca (March 21, 2008)

Credit Cards and Bankruptcy, Todd J. Zywicki (March 20, 2008)

National Security Division/FBI Training, Miller W. Shealy (March 20, 2008)

The Law Firm Caste System, Tiffani N. Darden (March 19, 2008)

Res Judicata in the ICJ’s Genocide Case: Implications for Other Courts and Tribunals?, Peter S. Prows and Michael Ottolenghi (March 19, 2008)

Do Cognitive Biases Affect Adjudication?: A Study of Labor Arbitrators, Martin H. Malin and Monica Biernat (March 17, 2008)

Impracticability Under the U.C.C. for Wartime Contracts, Jennifer S. Martin (March 17, 2008)

Life and Death Decisions: Prosecutorial Discretion and Capital Punishment in Missouri, Katherine Barnes, David Sloss, and Stephen Thaman (March 17, 2008)

THE PRICE IS RIGHT!: How Price Gouging Laws Delay Post-Disaster Recovery, David B. Skarbek and Brian R. Skarbek (March 14, 2008)

Organizational Perspectives on Contracts, Gordon Smith and Brayden King (March 14, 2008)

Law and the Polarization of American Politics, Stephen E. Gottlieb (March 14, 2008)

Brandenburg in a Time of Terror, Thomas Healy (March 13, 2008)

Property, Persona, Permission, Deven R. Desai (March 13, 2008)

Tales of a Law Professor Lateral Nothing, Paul Secunda (March 13, 2008)

Rethinking Judicial Deference to Legislative Factfinding, Caitlin E. Borgmann (March 13, 2008)

The CFI Microsoft Judgment and TRIPS Competition Flexibilities, Hans Henrik Lidgard and Tu T. Nguyen (March 13, 2008)

Sovereigns as Shareholders, Paul Rose (March 12, 2008)

Taxation the Consumption of Capital Gain, Calvin H. Johnson (March 12, 2008)

Government Intervention in Emerging Networked Technologies, Erik Lillquist and Sarah E. Waldeck (March 12, 2008)

THE LEGAL COST OF TRADE CREDIT, paolo santella (March 12, 2008)

Brandenburg in a Time of Terror, Thomas Healy (March 11, 2008)

Can We Secure the Hallowed Halls of Academe?, Denis Binder (March 11, 2008)

The Anti-Progressive Judiciary, Christine E. McKillip (March 10, 2008)

Establishing Separate Criminal and Civil Evidence Codes, John J. Capowski (March 10, 2008)

Legal Studies: How to narrow the Gap Between Law and Society, Leonardo J. Raznovich (March 10, 2008)

Focus on Batson: Let the Cameras Roll, Mimi Samuel (March 9, 2008)

Brandenburg in a Time of Terror, Thomas Healy (March 8, 2008)

Brandenburg in a Time of Terror, Thomas Healy (March 8, 2008)

Punishing Family Status, Dan Markel, Ethan J. Leib, and Jennifer M. Collins (March 7, 2008)

"Judgment Calls" in Sports and Courts, William T. Pizzi (March 7, 2008)

A Positive Theory of Eminent Domain, Eric Kades (March 7, 2008)

A Positive Theory of Eminent Domain, Eric Kades (March 7, 2008)

INCREASING ACCESS TO JUSTICE: A PROPOSAL, Ben Depoorter (March 6, 2008)

On Notions of Fairness in Environmental Justice, Dennis C. Cory (March 6, 2008)

Rethinking Judicial Deference to Legislative Factfinding, Caitlin E. Borgmann (March 6, 2008)

Obedience as the Foundation of Fiduciary Duty, Robert E. Atkinson (March 6, 2008)

Why Pedestrian-Friendly Street Design Is Not Negligent, Michael E. Lewyn (March 5, 2008)

Why Pedestrian-Friendly Street Design Is Not Negligent, Michael E. Lewyn (March 5, 2008)

Auschwitz as Nomos of Modern Legal Thought, Tawia B. Ansah (March 5, 2008)

Reinterpretations of St. Paul's Concept of Law, Tawia B. Ansah (March 5, 2008)

Collaboration, Innovation, and Contract Design, Matthew C. Jennejohn (March 5, 2008)

The Use Of Litigation Screenings, Lester Brickman (March 5, 2008)

Property, Power and Personal Freedom, Jeffrey B. Teichert (March 5, 2008)

Economic Substance and the Standard of Review, Christopher M. Pietruszkiewicz (March 4, 2008)

Presidential Popular Constitutionalism, Jedediah S. Purdy (March 4, 2008)

RETRIBUTIVE DAMAGES, Dan Markel (March 4, 2008)

The Use Of Litigation Screenings, Lester Brickman (March 4, 2008)

"Can Tax Policy Stop Human Trafficking?", Diane L. Fahey (March 4, 2008)

The iPhone Meets the Fourth Amendment, Adam M. Gershowitz (March 4, 2008)

White Paper: Behind a Law School's Decision to Implement an Institutional Repository, James M. Donovan and Carol A. Watson (March 4, 2008)

White Paper: Behind a Law School's Decision to Implement an Institutional Repository, James M. Donovan and Carol A. Watson (March 4, 2008)

A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL OBSTACLES TO INSTITUTIONAL INVESTOR ACTIVISM IN EUROPE AND IN THE US, Paolo Santella, Enrico Baffi, Carlo Drago, and Dino Lattuca (March 4, 2008)

What Do We Owe Future Generations?, Neil H. Buchanan (March 3, 2008)

Of Sovereignty, States, and Standing, Calvin R. Massey (March 3, 2008)

A Positive Theory of Eminent Domain, Eric Kades (March 3, 2008)

A Positive Theory of Eminent Domain, Eric Kades (March 3, 2008)

A Positive Theory of Eminent Domain, Eric Kades (March 3, 2008)

Property and Freedom, Benjamin Barros (March 3, 2008)

In the Zone: Sex Offenders and the Ten Percent Solutions, Asmara Tekle Johnson (March 3, 2008)

Law and the Polarization of American Politics, Stephen E. Gottlieb (March 3, 2008)

Gun Control: Political Fears Trump Crime Control, Joseph E. Olson and Clayton E. Cramer (March 1, 2008)

Empathy and Mercy, Richard Warner (March 1, 2008)

The "CSI Effect": Does It Really Exist?, Hon. Donald E. Shelton (March 1, 2008)

Testing an individual systems model of response evaluation and decision (RED) and antisocial behavior across adolescence, Reid Griffith Fontaine, Chongming Yang, Kenneth A. Dodge, John E. Bates, and Gregory S. Pettit (March 1, 2008)

Copytraps, Ned Snow (February 29, 2008)

Securities Class Actions as Pragmatic Ex Post Regulation, Elizabeth Chamblee Burch (February 29, 2008)

Should the Government Prosecute Monopolies?, Maurice E. Stucke (February 28, 2008)

Ability-To-Pay and the Taxation of Virtual Income, Adam S. Chodorow (February 28, 2008)

Federalism, the Rehnquist Court, and the Modern Republican Party, Bradley W. Joondeph (February 28, 2008)

TORT MADE FOR HIRE – RECONSIDERING THE CCNV CASE, Assaf Jacob (February 28, 2008)

TORT MADE FOR HIRE – RECONSIDERING THE CCNV CASE, Assaf Jacob (February 28, 2008)

Law and the Polarization of American Politics, Stephen E. Gottlieb (February 28, 2008)

Constitutional Displacement, Timothy Zick (February 28, 2008)

A Positive Theory of Eminent Domain, Eric Kades (February 28, 2008)

A Positive Theory of Eminent Domain, Eric Kades (February 28, 2008)

El Limite a la Tasa de Interés Remuneratoria y el Acceso al Crédito en Colombia, Carlos Andrés Delvasto Perdomo (February 28, 2008)

Origins of the State Secrets Privilege, William G. Weaver and Danielle Escontrias (February 27, 2008)

THE PATIENT LIFE: CAN CONSUMERS DIRECT HEALTH CARE?, Carl E. Schneider and Mark A. Hall (February 27, 2008)

Welfare Rights in State Constitutions, Elizabeth Pascal (February 27, 2008)

Mutual Fund Investors: Divergent Profiles, Alan R. Palmiter and Ahmed E. Taha (February 26, 2008)

Measuring Identity Theft at Top Banks (Version 1.0), Chris Hoofnagle (February 26, 2008)

Alger Hiss, 1926-1929, Ivan Chen (February 25, 2008)

The Tragedy of the Common Heritage of Mankind, Scott Shackelford (February 25, 2008)

The Tragedy of the Common Heritage of Mankind, Scott James Shackelford (February 25, 2008)

Regulation with Placebo Effects, Anup Malani (February 25, 2008)

Rational Crises, Anup Malani and Albert Choi (February 25, 2008)

Poverty, Trade, and Political Theory, Fernando R. Teson (February 25, 2008)

Rethinking Judicial Deference to Legislative Factfinding, Caitlin E. Borgmann (February 24, 2008)

A Positive Theory of Eminent Domain, Eric Kades (February 24, 2008)

RPM As An Exclusionary Practice, Ittai Paldor (February 24, 2008)

Ending Liberalism's Holy War Against the Holy?, Anne SY cheung and Puja Kapai (February 24, 2008)

Contracts as Plans, Curtis Bridgeman (February 23, 2008)

MAKING GLOBAL ADMINISTRATIVE LAW WORK, Supriya Routh (February 23, 2008)

Gender and the Legal Profession: The Michigan Alumni Data Set 1967-2000, Kenneth G. Dau-Schmidt, Marc S. Galanter, Kaushik Mukhopadhaya, and Kathleen E. Hull (February 22, 2008)

"Nigger": A Critical Race Realist Analysis of the N-word within Hate Crimes Law, Shayne E. Jones and Gregory S. Parks (February 22, 2008)

The Role of Economic Emergency Situation Determinations in Expediting Fire Salvage, Melanie Stidham, Gwen Busby, and K. Norman Johnson (February 22, 2008)

The Tragedy of the Common Heritage of Mankind, Scott James Shackelford (February 21, 2008)

Law's Misguided Love Affair with Science, Robin C. Feldman (February 21, 2008)

Spiritualism and Will(s) in the Age of Contract, Christopher J. Buccafusco (February 21, 2008)

The Jurisprudence of Notice and Comment, Jamison E. Colburn (February 20, 2008)

The Alien Invasion?, Ediberto Roman (February 20, 2008)

City-Based Immigration Ordinances, Anthony Colton (February 20, 2008)

OVERLOOKED TEMPORAL ISSUES IN STATUTORY INTERPRETATION, Brian G. Slocum (February 19, 2008)

Hedonic Adaptation and the Settlement of Civil Lawsuits, Jonathan S. Masur, John Bronsteen, and Christopher Buccafusco (February 19, 2008)

Misbehavior and Mistake in Bankruptcy Mortgage Claims, Katherine Porter (February 18, 2008)

Generous to a Fault? Fair Shares and Charitable Giving, Miranda P. Fleischer (February 18, 2008)

The Technology of Law and Economics, John H. Moran (February 18, 2008)

Legal Education UK, Subhajit Basu (February 18, 2008)

Desegregating Teachers, Wendy Marie Parker (February 17, 2008)

Cyberspace Changing Society and The Story of Coffee Pot, Subhajit Basu (February 15, 2008)

The Evolution of International Law, Milena Sterio (February 13, 2008)

Privacy 3.0--The Principle of Proportionality, Andrew B. Serwin (February 12, 2008)

Systemic Risk, Steven L. Schwarcz (February 12, 2008)

Approaching Comparative Company Law, David C. Donald (February 12, 2008)

Book review: Huse, Boards, Governance and Value Creation, Donal C. Wells (February 12, 2008)

International E-Discovery: Navigating the Maze, Erica M. Davila (February 12, 2008)

Evidence for Criminal Litigators, Miller W. Shealy (February 12, 2008)

Cultural Norms as a Source of Law: The Example of Bottled Water, Christine A. Klein and Ling-Yee Huang (February 10, 2008)

The Rome Statute, Penalties & the Spectrum of Severity, Michael N. Kourabas (February 9, 2008)

Law and Biology, Morris B. Hoffman (February 9, 2008)

IS TODAY THE DAY WE FREE ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY?, Mike Jorgensen (February 8, 2008)

INTERNATIONAL INTERLOCKING DIRECTORSHIPS DATABASE (MORE THAN 255 FIELDS\ ZIP FILE), Paolo Santella, Carlo Drago, and Andrea Polo (February 8, 2008)

CALIFORNIA WATER LAW: HISTORICAL ORIGINS TO THE PRESENT, Roderick E. Walston (February 6, 2008)

The Effect of Bankruptcy Strip-Down on Mortgage Markets, Adam J. Levitin and Joshua Goodman (February 6, 2008)

Creativity and Copyright, Dennis S. Karjala (February 4, 2008)

The Exclusionary Rule Lottery, Eugene R. Milhizer (February 4, 2008)

THE BOUNDARIES OF CONTACT LAW IN CYBERSPACE, Leon E. Trakman (February 4, 2008)